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On November 5, 2018, part of crypto community was expecting to hear an official decision from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding nine Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The statement never came, however, as November 5 was in fact the deadline for the public to submit their comments to the SEC to help…

Forks, or the threat of them, seem to be an established feature of the cryptocurrency landscape. But what are they? Why are they such a big deal? And what is the difference between a hard fork and a soft fork? A “fork,” in programming terms, is an open-source code modification. Usually the forked code is…